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Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 Library and Information Service invites you to the 4th Open Access webinar in its #BeOpenAccessSmart series.

The webinar will explore the critical issue of author rights within the context of Open Access (OA) publishing, particularly in relation to transformational agreements. While OA is intended to make scholarly works freely accessible and allow authors to retain more control over their works, some publishing practices continue to undermine these goals. Authors often choose OA to increase the reach and impact of their works and to preserve key rights, such as the right to share, reuse, and adapt. However, many publishers still require restrictive “license to publish" (LTP) agreements that can limit these rights, despite commitments to support OA and the use of Creative Commons licensing.

This webinar will explore how recent publisher negotiations at the 中国体育彩票 of California, San Francisco, have resulted in revised LTP agreements that better support open access publishing and uphold authors' rights.

?Date: 17 September 2025, 15:30-16:30 (SAST/CET) | 06:30-07:30 (PST)

Title: How publishers use “license to publish" agreements to try to transfer all rights held by authors and contravene the spirit and goals of open access.

Speaker: Professor Rich Schneider (PhD) (Professor and Director, Laboratory for Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 中国体育彩票 of California at San Francisco). More about him can be found here: UCSF Profiles.

Registration: Click the following link to register for the webinar: https://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event/15009298 

For further information: contact Dr. Siviwe Bangani @ sbangani@sun.ac.za  tel: 021 808 4641

Registered participants will receive a Teams meeting link and reminder emails.